WRITERS ON HUNTING 



What are other sports, compared with this, which is full of 

 enthusiasm ? 



P. Beckford. 



"Nimrod" ^^i?^ ^^?- ^c?- <:?- 



(C. J. Apperley) 



HE rode to hounds with seventy-three different 

 packs, according to his own statement made 

 shortly before his death, and as he was at all times 

 a hard rider, he is clearly entitled to rank amongst 

 the giants of the hunting field. Yet posterity 

 chiefly knows him by his pseudonym of '' Nimrod," 

 so that it is not easy for the biographer to distinguish 

 between the man and his writings. . . . 



Mr. Apperley writes that he often rode fifty 

 miles to covert, using two hacks on the road. Such 

 hunting involves more personal expenses than our 

 present system, to say nothing of the extra wear 

 and tear of horses. But it was the fashion, and it 

 was Mr. Apperley 's ambition to be in the fashion, 

 to the detriment of his fortune. But necessity soon 

 obliged him to curtail his expenditure, and he moved 

 to Bitterly Court, in Shropshire, whence, in 1817, 

 he moved to Brewood, in the Albrington country, 

 in Staffordshire. He remained here till either 

 1820 or 1 82 1, when he moved to London. At 

 this time his financial circumstances had become 

 straitened, and he determined to turn his attention 

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